洵

洵	U+6D35, 洵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D35

← 洴
[U+6D34]

CJK Unified Ideographs

洶 →
[U+6D36]

Translingual

Han character

洵 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水心日 (EPA), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵旬)

Derived characters

𦴥

References

KangXi: page 622, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17416
Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1613, character 5
Unihan data for U+6D35

Chinese

simp. and trad.		洵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 洵
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	ɡʷreːn, sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	qʰʷiːns, ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷin, qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	ɡʷiːn, qʰʷreːŋ
迿	ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷins
姰	ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷin
畇	l'iːŋ, sqʰʷin, sɢʷin, ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	sqʰʷin, sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	kʷin, kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	ɢʷin, ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	qʰʷreːŋ, qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 旬 (OC *sɢʷin)

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xún (xun²)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seon¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xún
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syún
  - Wade–Giles: hsün²
  - Yale: syún
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
  - Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: seon¹
  - Yale: sēun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soen¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sên¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /siuɪn/

Rime
Character	洵
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相倫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swin/
Li Rong	/siuĕn/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洵
Reading #	1/2
No.	16384
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	荀
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷin/

Definitions

洵

(literary) truly; indeed
- 豈無居人、不如叔也、洵美且仁。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  岂无居人、不如叔也、洵美且仁。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Qǐ wú jūrén, bùrú shū yě, xún měi qiě rén. [Pinyin]
  Are there indeed no inhabitants?
  [But] they are not like Shu,
  Who is truly admirable and kind.
An ancient river now in what is now Taiyuan, Shanxi.
An ancient river entering the Han River in Xunyang County, Shaanxi.
^† Alternative form of 泫 (xuàn, “shedding tears”).

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xún (xun²)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xún
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syún
  - Wade–Giles: hsün²
  - Yale: syún
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
  - Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ziuɪn/

Rime
Character	洵
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	詳遵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwin/
Li Rong	/ziuĕn/
Wang Li	/zĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceon⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洵
Reading #	2/2
No.	16396
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	旬
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷin/

Definitions

洵

^‡ Defined in historical dictionaries as 均.
^‡ Defined in historical dictionaries as 堪.

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuàn (xuan⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
  - Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴
  - Yale: sywàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
  - Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕɥɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hyun³
  - Yale: hyun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hyn³
  - Guangdong Romanization: hün³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn³³/

Definitions

洵

^† Alternative form of 敻 (“far; faraway”).

References

“洵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

洵

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Go-on: しゅん (shun); じゅん (jun)
Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
Kun: まことに (makotoni)

Korean

Hanja

洵 • (sun, hyeon) (hangeul 순, 현, revised sun, hyeon, McCune–Reischauer sun, hyŏn, Yale swun, hyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

洵: Hán Nôm readings: toang, tuân

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References

Nom Foundation